His CORY Of EUROPE, 
the mof notorious of their brethren, 
who were ‘concerned in the late tu- 
mult and murder, publicly. hanged. 
Thefe vigorous meafures produced 
#n- immediate happy effect; and or- 
der and quiet were for fome time 
eftablifhed. 
. An event now took place which 
‘eould not fail to aftonifh all thofe 
who were not admitted deeply into 
the fecrets of affairs. This was the 
extraordinary meafure of fending the 
duke of Orleans out of the king- 
dom. To underftand this we are 
to obferve, that nothing eould ex- 
ceed the indignation of La Fayette 
at the unexpected difobedience 
which he experienced. from his 
troops on the 5th of October. All 
athe mutual ties which fhould unite 
@ general and his-army feemed at 
once diffolyed; and, befides the dif- 
‘appointment, and wound to his 
ide, the perfonal fecurity of a 
ommander feemed in a very pre- 
‘Garious ftate, whofe troops difdained 
to obey, and who made no fcruple 
of flying in the face of his authori- 
‘ty and command, He well knew 
thit their difebedience and mutiny 
did not originate with themfelves, 
ut were produced by the machina- 
‘tions of the cabal; and he directed 
all his indignation and refentment 
to their proper object, the fuppofed 
Father of that faction. For, what- 
Wer La Fayette’s private political 
tws might have been, there cer- 
ly-was nothing farther removed 
m them, or which he abhorred 
re, even in idea, than that the 
ike of Orleans, through any con- 
aifion, or change of circumftances, 
r under any denomination, of re- 
t or otherwife, fhould ever be 
at the head of public affairs. 
faw that the feafon was highly 
oyrable to the gratification of his 
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enmity; that the views of the cabal 
were thoroughly feen through, and 
they had confequently loft all in- 
fluence, weight, and confidence in 
the aflembly; that Mirabeau had 
not been more unfortunate in his 
views to aggrandize his principal 
than himfelf; and that his late de- 
fign of forcing himfelf into the 
royal adminiftration, was fo well 
undertftood, that his preparatory mg-= 
tion was rejected, with every mark 
not only of difguft but abhor- 
rence. ; 
Tt is faid, that the leading party 
in the aflembly had already derived 
all the benefits from the duke which 
they wifhed, or at any time in- 
tended: his pecuniary aid had from 
the beginning been indifpenfably 
neceflary to their fuccefs, witheut 
it they could haye done nothing; 
but now things were totally chang- 
ed: if his treafures had not even 
been pretty well exhaufted, they 
were not, however, in that ftate of 
neceffity which rendered them once 
indifpenfable; he had been as long 
the inftrument to their purpofes as 
was neceflary, to continue it longer 
would be folly. Befides that his 
fervices were no longer wanted, his 
prefence was becoming trouble- 
fome ; and might, under certain 
circumftances, through his influence 
with the rabble, pofhbly prove dan- 
gerous. oe 
- Whether the opinion that thefe 
motives operated upon the aflembly 
be well founded or not, it feems 
evident that La Fayette mut hyve 
had a certainty of being well fup-- 
ported when he ventured upon ‘fo 
bold, and feemingly fo dangereas a 
meafure. He fettled the bufinefs 
like a foldier, with little ceremony 
but peremptory effect, Ina fhort 
and fudden conference with the 
duke, 
